Kevin, thanks for replying. There's much sense in what you say but, to answer your question directly, it's scary because it's arbitrary. It's a licence to breach confidentiality whenever it seems expedient. To be trusted by members, customers, and merchants, this site can't be arbitrary about protecting personal information. Nor can it be seen to be. I spent years training counsellors and advice workers in confidentiality issues, and the implications of what has been posted in reply to my questions suggest that there is no properly thought out and constituted confidentiality policy here. I had never imagined that that could be the case. Renderosity tells us that it has over 100,000 members: however many members PoserPros has, it's a fraction of that number. Entropic's confidentiality was therefore breached for all the members here who don't use PoserPros - people like me. However you slice it, that going to be a very large number of people. Renderosity's size brings responsibility and it's simply not responsible to assume that anything that's common knowledge on another site is common knowledge here. I agree that it might be legitimate to breach where that would save harm to the membership and site. I honestly don't think that this instance fulfills that description. Banning Entropic was a small side issue in the whole discussion, one that most people involved didn't bother to address. For me, much more harm has been done by tutone's arbitrary approach to privilged information, and the site admin's refusal to address this issue honestly. Having said that, I know that your reply was honest and intended to heal. Thank you. I must, however, respectfully disagree.